“Yet another infant carried off—how sad,” Gorey wrote of the scene on this envelope. “The altitude is in process of turning it blue with cold. It has reached the lavender stage apparently.”A...

The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staffRecently we received a crank letter that sets the standard for how to write a good one. Like every science-rel...

This is a triangular letter. During World War II, Russian soldiers folded their letters home in a way that required no envelope -it's actually quite easy. And it was also easy for censors to open and read them before sen...

Is the art of the love letter dead, or just dying? If more people knew about the great love letters of the past, maybe a few would take the trouble to put pen to paper and create something that the recipient will keep as...

A few people were lucky enough to be pan pals of a sort with Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh often added sketches or paintings to his letters, to illustrate what he wrote about. BibliOdyssey has a collection of these lett...

Shaun Usher of deputy dog has a new blog called Le...  ...blog called Letters of Note which shares classic correspondence of all kinds. One that stands out is from a slave...